AN EARLY LIFT.
The earliest mention of a device in any way resembling the modern elevator or "lift" may he read inVitruvius, who describes a hoisting machine which was invented by Archimedes. This elevator of the second century B.C. was worked by ropes, which were coiled upon a winding drum by a capstan and levers. The same writer refers to another similar machine, which was made to rotate by .i man who walked inside the capstan- Such a primitive elevator is still in use to lift passengers and freight from first lo the second storey of a convent en Mount Sinai.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12064, 20 July 1917, Page 4
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101AN EARLY LIFT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12064, 20 July 1917, Page 4
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